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Thomas C. Foster

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180 Masterpieces You Should Read Before You Die (Vol.1)

Walt Whitman, George Eliot, Herman Hesse, Kahlil Gibran, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Marcus Aurelius, Nikolai Gogol, James Joyce, Henry David Thoreau, T. S. Eliot, John Keats, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Agatha Christie, Wallace D. Wattles, James Allen, Sigmund Freud, Miguel de Cervantes, Frederick Douglass, Voltaire, Sun Tzu, Plato, Upton Sinclair, Anthony Trollope, E. M. Forster, Theodore Dreiser, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, William Makepeace Thackeray, Marcel Proust, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe & Ernest Hemingway

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Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves: Bookmarked

Michael Seidlinger

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Bleak House + FREE Audiobook Included

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Meditations on Middle-Earth

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90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1)

Walt Whitman, Herman Hesse, George Eliot, Kahlil Gibran, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol, James Joyce, Henry David Thoreau, William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, John Keats, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Leo Tolstoy, Benito Pérez Galdós, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, R.D. Blackmore, Alexandre Dumas, Marcel Proust, D. H. Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Princess Der Ling, Victor Hugo, Juan Valera, Anthony Trollope, Stephen Crane, E. M. Forster, Theodore Dreiser, Margaret Cavendish, Upton Sinclair, Plato, Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Sun Tzu, Voltaire, Miguel de Cervantes, Giovanni Boccaccio, Frederick Douglass, Sigmund Freud, H. A. Lorentz, Wallace D. Wattles, James Allen, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. P. Lovecraft, Washington Irving, Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, L. Frank Baum, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Selma Lagerlöf, Jack London, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, Soseki Natsume, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Brothers Grimm & Hans Christian Andersen

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Vintage Didion

Joan Didion

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The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical Writings

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Machine in the Garden

Leo Marx

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection: 6 Books, 26 Essays & 60+ Poems, Including Translations. Biographies & Letters (Illustrated)

Henry David Thoreau

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The Divine Comedy (Complete Annotated Edition)

Dante Alighieri

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Thomas P. Hillman

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Julia A. Stern

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The Greatest Works of Ancient Greek Literature

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The Encyclopedia of the Novel

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Monsters

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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor

Thomas C. Foster

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George Orwell - 12 books

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Letters to Milena

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The Poetic Edda & The Prose Edda (Complete Edition)

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The Rhetoric of Fiction

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Pandora's Jar

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A Little Book on Form

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The Novel Cure

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Franz Kafka: The Complete Novels

Franz Kafka

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The House of Mirth + FREE Audiobook Included

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Dubliners + FREE Audiobook Included

James Joyce

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The Complete Works of William Butler Yeats (Vol. 1-8)

William Butler Yeats

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Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Vita Sackville-West & Virginia Woolf

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Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems: The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death...

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Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet''

Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus & Damion Searls

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A Theory of Semiotics

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The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

Claude Rawson

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The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy & Simon Gatrell

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Japanese Mythology: An Illustrated Journey through Tales, Myths, and Yokai of the japanese Lore

Melissa Smith

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A Flor da Inglaterra

George Orwell

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The Bow and the Lyre

Octavio Paz

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Horace's Ars Poetica

Jennifer Ferriss-Hill

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Par bonheur

Claude Imbert

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The Life and Lies of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

Irvin Khaytman

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The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes

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1900; Or, The Last President

Ingersoll Lockwood

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Anne Of Green Gables Complete 8 Book Set

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And Yet...

Christopher Hitchens

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Frankenstein (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

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Ernest Hemingway on Writing

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Gender Trouble

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Richard Hugo

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The Sun Also Rises: The Original 1926 Unabridged And Complete Edition (Ernest Hemingway Classics)

Ernest Hemingway

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Why Orwell Matters

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Glad to the Brink of Fear

James Marcus

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My Trade Is Mystery

Carl Phillips

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The Charterhouse of Parma

Stendhal, Roger Pearson & Margaret Mauldon

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The Best of D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

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Matthew Zapruder

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La memoria vegetal

Umberto Eco

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Brian Jarvis, Paul Jenner & Andrew Dix

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Bertolt Brecht The Caucasian Chalk Circle: A Complete Guide

Jorges P. Lopez

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The Greatest Classics of All Time

Marcel Proust, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Kahlil Gibran, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, William Makepeace Thackeray, P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Von Arnim, D. H. Lawrence, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, C. S. Lewis, George Weedon Grossmith, H.G. Wells, Wilkie Collins, G. K. Chesterton, E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Grahame, George MacDonald, James Matthew Barrie, Mark Twain, Jack London, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Lewis Wallace, L.M. Montgomery, Homer, Plato, Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Hesse, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Gaston Leroux, Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal, Voltaire, Charles Baudelaire, Alexandre Dumas, Émile Zola, Henrik Ibsen, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Miguel de Cervantes, Benito Pérez Galdós, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Dante, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli, Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Kalidasa, Valmiki, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Confucius, Cao Xueqin, Princess Der Ling, Inazo Nitobe, Kakuzo Okakura & Soseki Natsume

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A Study Guide for Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"

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Everything Is Wrong with Me

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A Study Guide for J. D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye"

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

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Moby Dick + FREE Audiobook Included

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The Literature Book

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Anne Frank

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A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated + FREE audiobook download link)

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A Study Guide for William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White's "The Elements of Style"

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The Wheel of Time Companion

Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk & Maria Simons

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Playing in the Dark

Toni Morrison

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A Study Guide for John Fitzgerald Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage"

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